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Capt. Tess Marcial will spend Christmas far from the Air Force Academy, where she's stationed. Instead, she's deployed in Afghanistan where she's helping train Afghan personnel at a military hospital. The hospital cares for Afghanistan National Security Forces and their dependants. The focus is on women and children.
"Most...

A major air assault is planned this morning in Southern California where a wildfire has chewed through more than 25 square miles of bone dry brush, threatening hundreds of homes. A multimillion dollar agriculture industry and valuable oil production fields are also at risk. Firefighters are focused today on the...

A year after Capt. Sam Brown was set ablaze when a bomb blew up his Humvee in Afghanistan, the 25-year-old West Point graduate endures a steady schedule of painful surgery and stretching to break up knotty burn scars.
He also has another routine: checking a Web site that counts...